Change your background in a video coming together

Yous tin can use this feature only if your organization supports it. For assistance, contact your administrator.

To assistance limit distractions or make video meetings more fun, you tin replace your background with an image or video.

Note: People who join the video meeting and are not signed in to a Google Account, as well as those who demand to ask to go admitted, tin only change their background after the coming together starts. If you have Google Workspace for Education, y'all can't upload custom groundwork images.

Requirements to change your background

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Of import: To use Change background and Effects on an Android device, you lot must utilize one of the following devices with Android version P:

  • A Samsung Galaxy S9 and up
  • Pixel iii and upward
  • Other similar devices

Before a video meeting

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  1. Open the Encounter app Meet appand then select a meeting.
  2. Before yous join, on the bottom of your self view, tap Furnishings .
    • To slightly blur your groundwork, tap Slightly mistiness .
    • To completely mistiness your groundwork, tap Mistiness background .
    • To upload your ain background, tap Add Add.
    • To select a pre-uploaded background, tap the background you want to use.
    • To select a manner, at the bottom, tap Styles > the manner you want to use.
    • To select a filter, at the bottom, tap Filters > the filter you want to utilise.
      • Tip: If the filter is interactive, follow the directions on the screen to activate it.
    • To remove the effect, tap No furnishings or tap .
  3. When you are done, tap Washed.
  4. Tap Join.

During a video meeting

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Background furnishings may increase your battery usage. You lot may desire to turn the effects off if your bombardment is low. Your video may exist cropped to view other participants so some of the groundwork or issue may not be visible to other participants.

Tip: To meet how y'all look with a unlike background, check your self view.


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